The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-18

at the recent session of Congress with the
number Of bills which have failed in other
years in q similar way. This time no less
than forty different bills and resolutions
died by the pocket veto, as against pre-
vious maximum total Of eight.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 9TH, James Carran, who broke
Jail at Leetonia, o., January 10, was ar
rested at Canton. A large quantity Of
bogus silver coin was found on his person.
He h3s been identified as the leader Of
gang of counterfeiters who have recently
flooded a portion of the State with spuri-
GUS coius The arrest is important
ROWE, who killed Constable Logan at
Des Moines, Ia, was exonerated by the
coroner's jury, on the 8th, but was ar
rested subsequently on information charg-
! ing him with murder.
THE tailoring establishment Of Nicoll in
/ New York was burned on the morning OF
| the Sth. In the excitement passengers on
/ an elevated railway train became pani c
stricken, AMI many jumped or fell to the
| streets below, a distance OF thirty feet,
/ and an appalling loss of life and casual
! ties occurred.
THE Supreme Bench of Maryland over
/ ruled the motion for a new trial in the
/ case of John Thomas Ross, the negro
/ ''burker" who is under conviction Of hav-
\ ing murdered Emily Brown On the 18th
]
WuBERT CLEARY, twenty-one years of
/ age, son of a commission merchant, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Washing
J ton. d. C., on the Sth. He placed the
muzzle of pistol in his mouth and fired,
the bullet passing upward and through
\ the brain. ul-health led to e.espOndency
\ and the awful act
! DURING a riot in Galway, ireland, on the
night of the 9TH, while the troops were
/ confined in their barracks, mob num-
4 bering 1905 men, beat and kicked dozen
soldiers found struggling in the streets,
and chased them into the barracks They
afterward stoned the windows of the bar
racks.
on the 9th Lucy Parsons, the female
Anarchist of Chicago, was locked up at
Columbus, o., for unseemly conduct.
WM. c. HICKMAN, of Boston, after swind-
ling some capitalists out of large sum of
money, has skipped to Canada.
OK the 9Th the boiler of a shingle mill at
| Edmorc, Mich, exploded, killing Chas.
| Waters and Denny Sherlock, and wound
ing a number of others.
FRANK CRAWFORD and Thomas Pearsal,
! residents of Bridgeport, Pa, were
! drowned in the MonongaheIa river, lock
| No. 5, on the night of the Sth. Their bodies
were not recovered. Thomas Anderson,
Of Bridgeport, missing since the 9TH, was
found drowned in the Monongahela river
four miles below Brownsville.
DURING the night of tho 9th, Stephen
! Hutton, of the firm of Hutton, Stutzman
& Co, of Lgonier, Pa, was brutally
! beaten and almost killed by three burg
! lars whom Hutton surprised in their
! furniture factory, whore the burglars had
! broken in to obtain tools to burglarize
! business houses.
By melinite explosion at tho fortress
| of Belfort, France, on the 10th, six soldiers
were killed and eleven wounded.
Lucy Parsons was placed under $500
| bonds to keep the peace at Columbu o.,
on the 10th, and failing to give bail went
| to Jail.
LOUIS BAaAL, who attempted to kill
| Surveyor of the Port Hans s. Beattie, in
| the New Yysck Custom House, last Octo-
| Der, was sc ntenced on the 10th by Jud ge
| Benedict, in the United States Circuit
Court, TO five years confinement in the
State prison.
THE failure of the old and well-known
house of L. Levenson 4 Co, wholesale
clothiers, New York, was caused by a dis
honest boOk-keeper. 1t seems that the
book-keeper, Edward NJ. Newman, has
pursued a clever system of classification
for many years.
A BIG opium-3muggling scheme has been
uuearthed at Detroit, Mich, and one of the
smugglers is under arrest.
| FOURTEEN more officers who were lead
ers in the Bulgarian revolt were shot on
the 1Ith.
DRAUGHTsMAN TERRY's treason with
navy-yard secrets is still annoying the
British House of Commons.
| HENNEssY, the sergeant-at- arms of the
Texas Senate, has been arrested on addi-
tional charges of peculation.
AN emigrant train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad was wrecked on the 18th,
and sixteen Of the people recently ar
rived by the steamer Rhein were injured.
] IA 4 s,e
Middles boro, N. C., on the 11th for the muir
der Of his step-daughter He confessed
on the gallows.
The result of the post-mortem exami
nation of the bodies of Robert and Cor
. nelia Denmead at New Bruins wick, n. j.,
| ahoVNrs that thev starvad To death